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Speaker’s wife runs up £4,000 taxi bill shopping for official functions
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3105766.ece
What do you think of this?
I think if someone's wife is running around to the shops and back to get food for hosting official functions she's not even being paid to host then £40 a week is a bargain.
I think it's just such penny pinching - If they were to hire a professional host to run these functions it would cost a lot more then £40
What do you think of this?
I think if someone's wife is running around to the shops and back to get food for hosting official functions she's not even being paid to host then £40 a week is a bargain.
I think it's just such penny pinching - If they were to hire a professional host to run these functions it would cost a lot more then £40
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Maybe his wife can't drive and that's why she uses a taxi service.
If she's got lots to carry you can't really expect her to catch the bus.
they waste so much money that £4k seems relatively insignificant, though i guess it all adds up at the tax payers expense.
How many Dinner parties (with how many guests) you shopping for each week?
So she should be expected to pay for all the food e.t.c. herself when it's clearly official functions she is catering for?
£4000 a year isn't that much to spend on taxis anyway, considering how much money you spend to keep a car on the road.
Having said that, it's quite easy to get food, for 'functions', delivered now for free, instead of having to bum around in taxis. Maybe the service isn't available in London, but it's up to Ken to sort that out...
Since this thread is connected to Michael Martin, and we don't get many of them, can I just say that he's a bit crap, by the way? Although they could probably do worse, even if I can't imagine how.
Is that an official function that catering for is in her official job description/contract? If not, then why should she be allowed to dip into the official money pot, ELC money I wouldn't mind but, official bank of england stuff collected from official tax payers? fuck right off.
What's the Early Learning Centre got to do with it ?